Can any academically-oriented students of Chinese Buddhism point me to studies on how Chinese Buddhism adopted previously-existing terminology dealing with "souls" (hun?) or other concepts of post-death existence, after the introduction of Buddhism? In particular, is there any pre-Buddhist terminology that was incorporated into Chinese translations of Indic words such as vijnana?

tingdzin wrote:Can any academically-oriented students of Chinese Buddhism point me to studies on how Chinese Buddhism adopted previously-existing terminology dealing with "souls" (hun?) or other concepts of post-death existence, after the introduction of Buddhism? In particular, is there any pre-Buddhist terminology that was incorporated into Chinese translations of Indic words such as vijnana?